One short of the last episode, The Pitt is an Emergency Room 15 hs/episodes just like the original 24hs with K. Sutherland. This one stars one of the original ER cast doctors.

Enjoying it very much as we have no medical skills or knowledge whatsoever. It is very tight, insane and seems realistic. Don’t have that kind of medicine or scenarios on my neck of the woods.

We are going to miss it once it’s done, next week

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It's a great show

The Mrs. is hooked and she works in an ER

Awesome show. It is set at a fictional hospital, but modeled on Allegheny General Hospital on Pittsburgh's Northside. I spent some years at the medical examiner's office and can tell you that the truama shown on the show is absolutely accurate. It is absolutely riveting and like nothing I have seen on TV to date.

We've enjoyed it from the start. My wife and I have zero medical knowledge, but she's watched ER several times through start to finish. The show has me hooked even with the typical Hollywood focus on certain topics they've grazed over them and do not dwell on the topic. Overall a pretty good series.

Been watching it too, a lot because my wife is from Pittsburgh, but it is like a lot of the "med" shows on now.

I was randomly scrolling through Max and saw this show - I was instantly hooked. Great show, glad it has been renewed for a second year.

It's good. My wife lasted one episode. She's an OR nurse and said it's too accurate. She said she felt like she was still at work when she watched it.

We have enjoyed the show quite a bit. It’s a little over the top with cramming so much into one workday but hey, it’s television, right.

I think they have put into one workday pretty much every possible issue one could face both in the ER and in personal lives.

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I spent some years at the medical examiner's office and can tell you that the truama shown on the show is absolutely accurate. It is absolutely riveting and like nothing I have seen on TV to date.

Regarding the “trauma”, does that translate to gore? Sadly I’m sorry to admit as I get older it makes me more and more uncomfortable often making really good shows difficult to watch.

I might just have to give it a try and see for myself.

I'm about halfway through the season, and it's one of the best shows I've seen in years. Great acting, and even quite emotionally stirring in parts. The dialogue is very sharp. The plot is very tight and fast-moving, but with a solid natural flow. And they don't spoon feed you backstory or explanations, instead trusting you to be smart enough to pick up on stuff as its revealed in offhand references and quick quips.

Best of all, it doesn't have any of the bullshit romance/love interest/relationship side plots that most medical dramas lean heavily on. I watch medical shows for... y'know... the medical stuff. Not for sappy soap opera crap. I don't care which blonde headed nurse is secretly sleeping with that hunky doctor this week, and you certainly don't need to be spending half of the episode exploring that. I want to know what's happening with that new patient with the emergent presentation of acute bicardiosyntaxic intertranslaceration, dammit.

I'm an ER nurse and enjoying it. Started off great but now it's like, "Really?" Way too much shit happening in one shift. A thoracotomey and a cricothyrotomy in one shift? Fifteen years as an ER nurse and I've seen 2 thoracotomies and 3 cric's.

Realistic portrayal and there's a lot of stuff that I think only someone who's worked in an ER would pick up on and understand. Some of it hits a little close to home with memories of some prior patients. There have been some lines that have been absolutely golden and laugh out loud funny for me. "Fucking Doctor Google!"

My wife is an ER/Trauma nurse and highly enjoys it. Aside from all the craziness happening the entire shift she finds it quite accurate.
There is quite a bit of wokeness that is slightly annoying but they dwell on nothing for very long so they make a quick comment and you’re already on a whole new topic.

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Best of all, it doesn't have any of the bullshit romance/love interest/relationship side plots that most medical dramas lean heavily on.

This is not quite accurate. It’s very much there it’s just a quick hit and skip kind of thing that they come back to but not fully dwelled on at length at one time like most other dramas.
As this show is one of the most hit and skip to the next then circle back and do it again series I have seen.

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It was clear from the beginning and hit on many times that Dr. Robbie and Dr. Collins had something going on at some point and then she drops it on him in the back of the ambulance that he got her pregnant and she did not tell him and had an abortion.

Dr. King clearly has a little something for Dr. Langdon

Dr. Javadi and that curly haired nurse (maybe) have their back and forth moments. Think it was the last or maybe the 2nd to last episode where Javadi was so excited he knew her name.

Then that one surgical specialist or whoever clearly has an interest in Dr. Santos then she dropped the scalpel on her foot and it went away for about half an episode and she was back at it.

That’s just some quickies off the top my head without even really thinking about it.

My wife and I enjoyed the show. We live just north of Pittsburgh and have been to Allegheny General too many times. It's fun to pick out the Pittsburgh references, many are subtle.

I read this morning that filming has started on Season 2. Excellent news.

Just watched the season finale. I’ve ended a few shifts like that.

Ive been told by two radiologists that it's pretty good, and realistic to boot.

On our list to watch.

Last episode was decent. The little woke comments/themes are annoying.

When Ms. Ankle Monitor is giving her talk to the kid who they thought was the shooter.
Asking him if he knows what it like to be afraid and how women are scared of 50% of everyone they meet simply because they are female.

What complete nonsense. I asked my wife if she was scared of 50% of everyone she meets and said said that she certainly is not.

Maybe I'll give it another shot. I turned it off in episode 1 when Noah Wylie's character's PTSD caused by covid was revealed. Couldn't get past that melodramatic woke crap. I wanted to like it.

COVID is not the reason for the PTSD. The death of that specific individual doctor his mentor is the reason.

There is a little back and forth later about masks. The nice part of this show and its wokeness and work place romance (guess you can call them that) is that the show is very fast paced.
Everything is a hit and skip so you get some comments here and there but no real dwelling on it.

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COVID is not the reason for the PTSD. The death of that specific individual doctor his mentor is the reason.

Yes, I think he needed to make the hard decision to take his respirator off and give it to a little girl and they ended up both dying.

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The little woke comments/themes are annoying.

Agreed, and that's my only complaint about the series. But as you mentioned, the fact that it's solely very quick comments/scenes before getting back to the meat of the show helps mitigate that issue.

Same with any of the romance stuff... Rather than spending lengthy scenes or half the episode dwelling on it, it's just a quick comment and then back to the medical stuff. So it's never distracting or overbearing, and it never slows down the plot. I'm good with that.

I finally got around to finishing Season 1, and even with that minor complaint, it's still one of the best shows I've seen in years.